A project in the works will change the ways rail travels in Wilmington, including closing some crossings and making improvements to new ones. The changes will be made to the existing 13-mile CSX rail line, commonly referred to as the “beltline”; it’s the only active track through the city. The...

Plans for the state’s first recreational marijuana sales are on hold as the Eastern Band of Cherokee announces their marijuana dispensary will only sell medical marijuana during its grand opening. The Great Smoky Cannabis Company dispensary will be the first in the state. A joint statement issued by tribal leadership...

As they walked down East Moore Street in Southport, Jacques and Marie Tremblay were having an animated conversation that anyone who isn’t from North Carolina probably has had at one time or another when contemplating grabbing an iced tea: sweet or unsweet? The Canadian snowbirds from just outside Montreal, Quebec,...

The Circle K located off U.S. Highway 264 on Raleigh Road Parkway West is getting some major upgrades with its full renovation, including 24 electric vehicle charging stations and the restaurant Krystal. Robbie Craft, regional category manager for Circle K, said the 24-vehicle charging station will be the largest supercharging...

When the North Carolina Education Lottery Commission met last week, the focus was largely on how lucrative mobile sports betting had been since its March 11th launch. What received less attention was how lottery tickets were performing. Total sales through the first seven months of the fiscal year were down...

The University of North Carolina Wilmington Blue Economy Index is live on Bloomberg terminals as of last month, according to Richard Keary, an advisor on the project. The UNCW team that built the index announced the news on LinkedIn Wednesday, after learning from its calculation agent INDXX that the index...

The Roxboro coal-fired plant has been a key power generator since 1966. It’s slated to close within a decade, forcing the utility to seek new energy sources. A windblown hill of coal ash on the shore of Person County’s Hyco Lake may seem like an odd place from which to...

In the past 15 years, two New Hanover County representatives introduced legislation aiming to strengthen North Carolina’s free speech protections — but for unclear reasons, the bills never made it out of initial committees. North Carolina is one of 17 states without an anti-SLAPP law, an acronym for strategic litigation...

As many states struggle with workforce shortages across the health care industry, there’s a national effort to give dentists and dental hygienists more authority to work in multiple states without going through a time-consuming licensure process in each one. Two licensing compacts are being floated, one by the Council of...

Forsyth Technical Community College is working to improve how student parents access child care on campus. The two-year college is part of a new coalition called the Child Care for Student Parents Cohort. The cohort is led by New America, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. Iris Palmer, the...

The continuing spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) remains a major public health concern and results in enormous disease burden, with more than 774.7 million cases and 7.0 million deaths registered worldwide as of 18 February 2024 (ref. 1). Emerging evidence...

Durham’s tourism agency is calling for the city to invest in a new convention center as part of a sweeping plan to improve its downtown and visitor industry. Why it matters: The Triangle’s downtowns are all seeking ways to reinvigorate themselves after the pandemic changed daily commuter and work patterns,...

Summerfield denied NAACP allegations that the town has a long history of “perpetuating segregation and discriminating against non-white residents of Guilford County” with its zoning laws and land use and zoning decisions. Calling the allegations “meritless,” Summerfield said in a statement yesterday (March 21) it “denies that it has engaged...

A recent multimillion-dollar court settlement involving realtor commissions has left many unanswered questions in the real estate industry, especially when it comes to who will benefit and who will be disadvantaged. Those answers will indeed come in time, but for now, at least one thing is clear — and those...

The embattled head of the North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs is stepping down following recent criticism by Republican state lawmakers over his department’s closure of a Fayetteville retirement home for veterans. Walter Gaskin, a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general who has led the department under Democratic...